Indeed, between 2015 and 2016 there was an alarming 29% increase in the annual clearing rate in Brazil's Amazon forest and even higher increases in the neighbouring Cerrado biome (Fig. 1). In the Cerrado, the clearing rate in 2015 was 11,795 km2, a rate 47% higher than that recorded ...
Brazil produces roughly 34% of the world's soy and that number is expected to grow. Many of the soy production in Brazil is to be exported around the world. In 2019-2020, out of the 125 million metric tons of soy produced in Brazil, 1/3 stayed in Brazil while the rest was exported...
The authors used their model to predict local temperature change in Brazil between 2010 and 2050. Assuming the current rate of illegal deforestation is maintained, this predicted an annual land surface temperature rise of up to 1.45°C in some areas by 2050. However, if no further illegal defor...
This article presents information about efforts of the National Wildlife Federation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by cattle ranching in Brazil. A workshop that looked for solutions to the problem brought together stakeholders in the meat and...
in areas threatened by deforestation. Together this partnership will learn the best ways to shift the economic incentives leading bad actors to clear swaths of forested land (like cattle ranching and monocropping) to sustainable integrated solutions. While WWF tests...
According to annual Amazon deforestation statistics, the area destroyed in Brazil has increased by more than 65 percent since 2010.
Because of the deforestation of tropical rainforests in Brazil, significantly more carbon has been lost than was previously assumed. As scientists of the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the effect of the degradation has been undere...
Cargill Announces Commitment to Eliminate Deforestation and Land Conversion in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay by 2025 commodities in the global food system, including in-country origination of soy, corn, wheat, and cotton, building upon the company's global commitment of deforestation-free commodities ...
Bolsonaro will face leftist former President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva at the polls in October. Lula, as he is widely known, recently told CNN Brasil that in his government “there will be no Amazon deforestation.” During Lula’s presidency (2002-2010), deforestation shrank 65% in Brazil...
which would decrease the resilience of highly disturbed Chiquitano forests. We evaluated ten sampling sites (10 × 10 km), including five in forested areas with some type of protection and the other five in areas with populated centers and accelerated forest loss. We developed scripts on the Go...